Opinion
1999-03390
Submitted November 19, 2002.
December 16, 2002.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Perone, J.), rendered September 1, 1999, convicting him of assault in the first degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Jeffrey Galperin, Port Chester, N.Y., for appellant.
Jeanine Pirro, District Attorney, White Plains, N.Y. (Sara Jones Smith and Richard Longworth Hecht of counsel), for respondent.
Before: A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J., ANITA R. FLORIO, WILLIAM D. FRIEDMANN, THOMAS A. ADAMS, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's contention that the trial court erroneously instructed the jurors on the elements of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (see Penal Law § 265.02), because it omitted any reference to his prior conviction, is not preserved for appellate review (see CPL 470.05).
In any event, where, as here, "the fact that the defendant has been previously convicted of an offense raises an offense of lower grade to one of higher grade and thereby becomes an element of the latter" (CPL 200.60), and "the defendant admits the previous conviction, that element of the offense charged in the indictment is deemed established, no evidence in support thereof may be adduced by the people, and the court must submit the case to the jury without reference thereto and as if the fact of such previous conviction were not an element of the offense" (CPL 200.60[a]; see CPL 200.60). Here, the defendant admitted his prior conviction. Accordingly, the trial court properly omitted from its charge to the jury any reference to the defendant's prior conviction (see People v. Miller, 142 A.D.2d 760).
The defendant's remaining contentions were either waived at trial, or not preserved for appellate review (see People v. Albert, 85 N.Y.2d 851; People v. Jones, 284 A.D.2d 46; People v. Moore, 233 A.D.2d 670; People v. Nunez, 229 A.D.2d 598).
PRUDENTI, P.J., FLORIO, FRIEDMANN and ADAMS, JJ., concur.